Thursday, May 09, 2024

Medical Devices

Above my pay grade, but I've heard enough stories to suggest the regulation is not what it needs to be.
More than 200 people with diabetes were injured when their insulin pumps shut down unexpectedly due to a problem with a connected mobile app, the US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.

Version 2.7 of the t:connect Apple iOS app – used with the t:slim X2 insulin pump with Control-IQ – has been recalled due to a software issue that causes the app to crash and relaunch. This cycle drains the pump battery, causing it to shut down sooner than expected and suspend insulin delivery.
No idea who is to blame here, but having dealt with my inlaws and hearing aids, whenever Apple does an iOS update, there's a good chance the hearing aid app breaks in some way, and that is not a system you can put life sustaining devices on.

Heartwarming

It never matters much because if one horrible person goes, then another one just takes their place, but still it's funny.

Morning

Go

Wednesday, May 08, 2024

Wednesday Night

Rock on.

Happy Hour

Get happy

America's Worst University President

Ohio State's Ted Carter.

Larval Leaders

An occasional justification given for the obsessive focus on elite schools by our demented elite publications is "this is where the future leaders of the country come from," but, my brothers in Gritty, the current leaders of the country all came from them!!! Long before they were WOKE! Before some of them admitted women! And those people have power right now!!!

Who's The Boss

In very general terms, you can divide our glorious Thinkfluencers (columnists, etc.) and journalists into those think their role is to hold the powerful to account, and those who think their role is to hold (select) members of the public to account.

You can put the latter in the point and laugh category.

Lunch

Shop while you eat! (Ad, I get a commission).

Sounds Bad

Don't like this Putin guy.
The remark, which Putin repeated twice during his year-end news conference in December, shed light on a campaign he is waging that has received little attention outside wartime Russia: to imbue the country’s education system with patriotism, purge universities of Western influences, and quash any dissent among professors and students on campuses that are often hotbeds of political activism.

At St. Petersburg State University, this meant dismantling a prestigious humanities program called the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For more than a decade, until May 2022, the faculty — or college — was led by Alexei Kudrin, a liberal economist and former finance minister who had been a close associate of Putin’s since the early 1990s, when they were deputy mayors together in St. Petersburg.

“We had many classes on U.S. history, American political life, democracy and political thought, as well as courses on Russian history and political science, history of U.S.-Russian relations, and even a course titled ‘The ABCs of War: Causes, Effects, Consequences,’” said a student at the faculty, also known as Smolny College. “They are all gone now,” the student said, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

Oh No Elmo

Woke deep state is after him.
The Department of Justice is looking into whether Tesla committed securities and wire fraud around its self-driving vehicle claims, Reuters reports today, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

Red Lines

Starting to question Biden's parenting skills. (or his honesty, you pick)

Morning

Every day

Tuesday, May 07, 2024

Tuesday Night

Rock on.

Happy Hour

get happy

Amazing Stuff

Reuters:
Israel still plans to proceed with a 90-day plan to invade Rafah, which Washington is committed to stopping, a U.S. official familiar with truce negotiations between Hamas and Israel told Reuters on Monday.

"Netanyahu and the war cabinet have not appeared to approach the latest phase of negotiations (with Hamas) in good faith,” the official told Reuters, asking not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
We'll never hear from that official again.

America's Worst University

Columbia University.

Lunch

eat

Rage

"soliciting support" truly amazing.

Please Describe Your Crimes In Detail

Sure thing, esquire, I have detailed contemporaneous notes.
The former Trump Organization controller testified about the notes he took during a January 2017 meeting that laid out how the family real estate company was going to surreptitiously reimburse attorney Michael Cohen for fronting the $130,000 that silenced the porn star Stormy Daniels. That payment kept her from going public about her decade-old, one-night stand with Trump in the days before the 2016 presidential election.

The farce was laid out in black and white, with handwritten notes explaining the fuzzy math at play.